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How to beat an insurgency...
Abu Muqawama mentioned the excellent briefing on Colombia and the FARC presented by Colombian Vice-Minister of Defense Juan Carlos Pinzón last weekend. Embarrassingly for a st...
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Speaking of Engaging With the Enemy...
Faced with a sharp escalation of suicide bombings in urban areas, the leaders of Pakistan’s new coalition government say they will negotiate with the militants believed to be ...
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Saddam and the Terrorists
Several of this blog's right-of-center readers were offended we linked to the left-of-center journalist Spencer Ackerman's hatchet job on Stephen F. Hayes and Jeffrey Goldberg...
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Shadi Hamid on Obama and Muslims
Globe-trotting citizen of the world (and friend of this blogger) Shadi Hamid has an op-ed in the Washington Post on what Barack Obama's speech and rhetoric might mean to Arabs...
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Allez Sarko!
Read this entire article. Some good stuff on NATO, France, and Afghanistan. President Sarkozy of France will tell Gordon Brown next week that France plans to send an extra 1...
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Abu Muqawama was short-listed, we hear
Peter F. Dorman, an Egyptologist, has been named the new president of the American University of Beirut....
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Happy Nowruz
To my Persian and Afghan friends (particularly my interpreters), happy Nowruz. It seems far more sensible to mark your New Year celebration during springtime rather in the de...
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Engaging Hamas
It's Good Friday, and that means Abu Muqawama is off to church in a minute. But it also means the 10-year anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland (which w...
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Lebanon Job Opening with ICG
This strikes Abu Muqawama as a great job. He's not applying, but he'll be interested in who they hire....
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Iraq, and the Women of COIN
Nice of Charlie to emerge from her hole to post on ... basketball. Charlie might have instead posted on something from the cold-blooded world of counter-insurgency warfare, wh...
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Insurgency Research Group Blog
The Insurgency Research Group at King's College London has a new blog. It has been duly added to the links on the right....
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One more word about Northern Ireland...
Lieutenant General Sir John Kiszely recently stated that "all insurgencies are sui generis," meaning that all insurgencies take place within a specific social, cultural, histo...
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Clinton Praises Petraeus...
...as well she should....
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The WaPo Calls Out Clinton and Obama Campaign Rhetoric on Iraq...
...as well they should....
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And Ackerman Calls Out Stephen F. Hayes and Jeff Goldberg...
...as well he should. (This is a devastating must-read.)...
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March Madness: Day 1
The first two days of March Madness are the two greatest days in all of sports. Charlie brokers no dissent on this issue. Though to be fair, Charlie isn't inclined to tolerate...
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MiTTs in Mosul
A long article in today's NY Times discusses the US and Iraqi Army on operations in Mosul. For those of us who believe that conflict among the people can only be resolved from...
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Keep me English to my dying day: No surrender, no surrender, no surrender to the IRA
Fouad Ajami, one of the earliest and most strident backers of the Iraq War, has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Iraq entitled 'No Surrender.' That title -- and the op-e...
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Free Speech for Officers
Larry Korb and Phil Carter, two left-of-center defense intellectuals, are debating whether or not military officers have or should have complete freedom of speech over on the ...
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March Madness
Readers of this blog can check Abu Muqawama's NCAA bracket at the Washington Post Tourney Tracker. It's saved under the name "AbuMuqawama" but isn't terribly inventive. Abu Mu...